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Genus of beetles From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Trogoderma is a genus of beetles in the family Dermestidae, the skin beetles. There are about 135 species worldwide.[1]
| Trogoderma | |
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| Khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Polyphaga |
| Family: | Dermestidae |
| Tribe: | Megatomini |
| Genus: | Trogoderma Dejean, 1821 |
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Some species are pests of stored animal and plant products.[2]
Recent research shows that Trogoderma (in its broad, traditional definition) is polyphyletic. Many species in the Southern Hemisphere are genetically distinct from the Holarctic species, which led to their reclassification under the genus Eurhopalus (Zhou et al., 2022).[3] However, this change is not widely adopted, which in some cases is caused by differing opinions on taxonomy - e.g., the World Dermestidae Catalogue (Jiří Háva, 2023) still recognizes the old classification system and actively reinstated several genera synonymized with Eurhopalus.[4]
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